Republicans are not funny.

Our Emmys would disagree.

Tax cuts for the wealthy. They laughed and licked their chops over that one. Of course, no one else thought it was funny.

1984 Reagan v. Mondale debates - Reagan was asked if he had any doubts about his ability to function in a high stress situation like the Cuban Missile Crisis due to his relatively advanced age.

Reagan: None at all. And I want you to know, Mr. Truitt, also I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Even I laughed.

R1 Oh Kelsey honey - even before I found out you were a Republican I thought you were unfunny.

R1 The only humor to be found here is that the best thing you can think of is FRASIER (1993-2004), written by other smug liberal elites behind Modern Family and having nothing to do with any kind of conservative point of view....

Their idea of “humor” is mean-spirited jokes and insults usually about a person’s race, intellect or looks. Examples—Michelle Obama looks like an ape! She is really a man and Barry is gay!

Wit requires a measure of empathy. In order to be funny one must be able to see where others are either soft and/or existing in common space. From there, the next step is to step out of a safe zone--risking vulnerability--and offering a chance for community.

Most of the conservatives I know are obsessed with protecting their softness and lashing out to cover their weakness. Few of them will ever not be on guard.

Political cartoons are even worse as they take training (as well as innate skill) and that takes time...which also leaves the "student" vulnerable. Subsequently, cartoons like Dilbert, for example, only exist in their simplest form.

Ditto: Scott Baio/Kirstie Alley/Stacey Dash...

Agree. You rarely see real wit from the right.

They're hilarious when they drop dead.

Before Rush Limbaugh became the official voice of the Republican Party I knew people who said they didn’t agree with what he said but liked his show because he was so funny. Back then there was also an urban legend that he saw himself as an actor playing a character and he didn’t believe a word of it, which interestingly Alex Jones has used in his own defense in court.

Sam Seder has said Gavin McInnes, creator of the Proud Boys, is a failed standup.

PJ O’Rourke is intermittently mildly amusing. Unlike most conservatives, he is capable of self-deprecation, and he has not drunk the Trump Kool-Aid.

But these days all he does is shriek about “socialism,” just like the rest of them.

Dennis Miller was funny until he took the hard turn to the right.

Don Jr is the worst. I love how he ends up getting owned in just every comment to his smug, snarky tweets.

There were a lot of funny memes and jokes about Hillary.

R14 Were there? Or could this possibly be a revelatory moment for you?

They also 'punch down' instead of 'punching up'. Exhibit A: Dumpy mocking a handicapped reporter and the audience erupts in howling glee.

Also, they are stupid and lizard brained.

[quote] They also 'punch down' instead of 'punching up'.

Example B.

This guy has 357K twitter followers (yeah, a ton of them are bots, but still...), I know a couple of people who shared this video because they think it is video is hi-larius!

Will Rogers sucked Harding's cock.

Figuratively.

I actually thought Trump was funny in his primary debates, Little Marco, Low Energy Jeb. I was still registered as a Republican then and ended up casting a meaningless vote for Rubio as he was the last man standing against Trump.

R19 Clearly you are a Republican. You did not mature in the areas of your brain that allow you to process anything beyond the basest levels of humor.. taunting..grade school bullying... fart jokes... etc.

The worst part about them is they have no awareness of the fact that they're unfunny. It's the Dunning-Kruger effect. If only Ann Coulter were as funny as Ann Coulter thinks Ann Coulter is.

John McCain's roasting of Obama in 2008 was very funny.

R22 He showed a little self deprecation. This is not the same as humor. You sound like an older gentleman easily charmed by uncle-giving-a-toast-at-wedding type pedestrianism.

[quote] Stood in rain for hour to early vote today. When I got home I filled in my stack of mail-in ballots and then voted the ballots of my deceased parents and grandparents. They vote just like me! #Trump2020

I think Republicans are hilarious. Everytime I see Chachi or Antonio Sabato Jr. having a fit about how they cant get roles I laugh.

Oh and go fuck yourself Mike Huckabee. You and your whole inbred family.

I agree that most modern American humor has a sense of self-deprecation and insight that many Republicans just lack. A lot of Republican jokes are put-downs, usually about Dems, women, gays, and racial jokes.

When Dems laugh at Republicans it's because they say really stupid shit or their arguments are either twisted or intellectually dishonest.

They've studies Republican brains and they have much higher activity around fear. They are also much more squeamish toward bodily movements and have a more ordered, procedural way of thinking (whereas liberals have the ability to reorganize their thoughts in more flexible ways to get 'a-ha' moments).

Conservatives enjoy more literal art, familiar music, and unambiguous texts. They are more apt to show compassion to smaller circles (e.g. family and friends) than others they do not know.

I can't tell you how many times I've seen conservatives be offended by jokes or say - that's not funny. They're such literal people. And studies show they have a limited worldview and a limited amount of compassion, despite what they may say about being religious and honorable.

R24 I tried looking at this Huckabee tweet neutrally and it's just not at all clever- The "they vote just like me!" shows he has no control over the absurdist sentiment he's trying to express which was not delivered with any sort of efficiency.

Ted Cruz' Zodiac Killer puzzle tweet on Halloween is literally the only time I can say I've seen a conservative be funny on twitter. Once. A single time. And I'm sure a staffer that secretly hates him floated him the idea.

Well I phoned my congressman and he said *quote*

I'd like to help you son but you're too poor to vote

Apologies!

I didn't mean to imply that I thought the tweet at R24 was even remotely funny. Posted to prove OP's point.

The Huckster thinks he is hysterical, though.

President Bush Sr. was known for his sense of humor and telling corny jokes.

Senator McCain was a good sport and quite funny in his SNL appearance (though Tina Fey was doing the heavy lifting in the sketch below).

I was going to use r3’s example also. Mondale himself got a hearty laugh out of, as did most people.

Politics weren’t nearly as vitriolic as today.

Hell, back in the 90s we had reasonable political discourse.

“Who you voting for?”

“I’m going with Bush. I think he’s did great the last 4 years and can continue.”

“Yeah. Well that’s cool. I’m going with Clinton. I think he can really create jobs and boost the economy.”

“Oh, that’s cool. Did you see the game last night...?”

Nowadays it’s:

“Who you voting for?”

“I’m going with Biden.”

HULK SMASH!!!!

After Barbara Bush died, Roger Stone said they couldn't cremate her because the body would burn for three days. It was mean, but I laughed.

You're way off R23!

- R22

[quote] written by other smug liberal elites behind Modern Family and having nothing to do with any kind of conservative point of view....

You mean that [italic]Diff’rent Strokes[/italic] ripoff that promotes the erasure of gay kids via the tr-nscult? What’s so “liberal” about that? Sounds pretty deplorable to me.

Fuck off, Matthew.

Mitt was funny at the 2012 Al Smith Dinner.

Sync Dancing For The Lord is pretty funny.

Watch 5 seconds of any Tim Allen sitcom and you will want to pour hot coffee in your genitals. Totally not funny.

[italic]The 1/2 Hour News Hour,[/italic] anyone?

^ NOT a successful example, BTW

I did burst out laughing that POS Rush Limbaugh would be the President R39. Side note, why isn't he dead yet? We were promised that months ago.

The head writer of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a Republican. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are Republicans... and don’t even start with that Libertarian bullshit.

MST3K sucked as soon as confident, good-natured, big-dick-havin' Joel left. His humor had BALLS - and was genuinely edgy and subversive. Ever since Micro-Peen Mike was put in charge, the show devolved into shitty run-of-the-mill 90's play-it-safe "humor." (Like the "humor" on BBC sitcoms/Dr Who around the turn of the century/oughts.) Ever read an interview with that douche, Mike? Comes off as your typical bitter, angry Q--Ano tinfoil hat loon...

Republicans are only funny when they’re dead.

Conservatives are funny, always have been. Haven't you heard jokes about gays, women, blacks, Latinos, Jews, trannies along with all the ethnic jabs?

Go back to your micro-aggression elective you're taking for your sociology/gender studies double major, so you can start immediately as an overnight cleaner at Planet Fitness when school ends.

I come from a big Irish Catholic NYC family. Everyone is quick witted and funny. But we are split politically.

My right wing siblings have made me laugh many times.

But they do vote for who they perceive as strong. Bully types.

The Lincoln Project guys made me laugh with their L. Graham ad begging for money where they used the Sarah McLaughlin/animals ad for inspiration

Miz Lindz and her hot dogs 🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭.

Ted McGinley saved [italic]Married With Children[/italic] from being canceled after the Seven debacle.

Re: John McCain's humorless, racist ghost: Being genteel when you're mocked isn't the same as having a sense of humor. It's merely a survival instinct.

[quote] The head writer of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a Republican.

A true nonstarter. Nothing funny to be found about that show.

[quote] Trey Parker and Matt Stone are Republicans.

No, this is absolutely not true. It does explain your prior comment, though. Edgelord humor for incels is not the standard we're employing here.

Of course, R47, the Lincoln Project! How did we miss this exhibit A right in front of our faces?! Of course republicans can be riotously funny.

It's riotously funny because they're making fun of people and it's some insane bullshit we're dealing with.

And creators of South Parks are NOT Republicans - not even close.

“Read my lips: No New Taxes.”

[quote]Ever read an interview with that douche, Mike? Comes off as your typical bitter, angry Q--Ano tinfoil hat loon...

I've met Mike Nelson (and Bridget) in person on multiple occasions and he was always warm, friendly, and sarcastically witty. You do realize he was one of the show's writers during all but the first of those oh-so-wonderful Joel Hodgson years? Once KTMA went bankrupt and the show moved to Comedy Central the material was scripted by an ensemble of writers, not done by Hodgson alone as off-the-cuff improv.

This show you're touting as proof of conservative humor is about as funny as a college student lead midnight showing of Rocky Horror. In fact it's the same premise but with less clever commentary. Says a lot.

[quote] They've studied Republican brains and they have much higher activity around fear. They are also much more squeamish toward bodily movements and have a more ordered, procedural way of thinking (whereas liberals have the ability to reorganize their thoughts in more flexible ways to get 'a-ha' moments).

[quote] Conservatives enjoy more literal art, familiar music, and unambiguous texts. They are more apt to show compassion to smaller circles (e.g. family and friends) than others they do not know.

[quote] And studies show they have a limited worldview and a limited amount of compassion, despite what they may say about being religious and honorable.

Correct. It's biological. Their larger, less regulated amygdalas are a primitive defect.

Conservatives live in a perpetual state of anxiety and are more likely to hold cognitive biases partially because these chemical and anatomical predispositions distort their perception of reality.

[quote] Conservatives live in a perpetual state of anxiety

Conservatives or DLers? This place is nothing but anxiety, so there goes that theory.

Too conformist for humor.

Republicans are not funny because they are a cult.

Their attempts at "humor" are invariably juvenile, crude and based on mocking someone or something.

The perfect example is Trump's mockery of the disabled reporter. Somehow they view that as funny.

The Lincoln Project guys are really funny, some of them are - but not all.

Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt are hilarious.

Abraham Lincoln, our funniest POTUS, was a Republican.

R57 Anxiety and fear are normal, healthy responses to *well-founded perceptions of danger.

For instance, having a proven white supremacist malignant narcissist who has told over 20,000 documented lies, appoints Neo-Nazis and Neo-Nazi sympathizers to his cabinet, has deliberately killed over 200,000 people through denialism and inaction, kidnaps and abducts children, and is attempting to incite a second civil war obtaining the highest political office in the land is a perfectly good reason any normal person would experience fear and anxiety. It means your brain is working as it should.

Dysfunction of the amygdala in either extreme in a person however can mean they are incapable of perceiving real credible danger like the one we're in now and engage in dangerous risk taking behavior or that they overreact when they are not actually in danger (they're coming to take our guns, BLM and Antifa is coming to steal your house, etc...)

So no, the science matches pretty much exactly what we've already known for decades about conservatives.

[quote] Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt are hilarious.

Citation needed.

[quote] Abraham Lincoln, our funniest POTUS, was a Republican.

Technically not a bald-faced lie, but still a lie by omission.

R62, we have all seen Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson all over cable news for the past few years. We know they're both really funny. I'm not going to go searching for examples.

I don't know what the fuck you mean about President Lincoln. He is/was our funniest ever president. He didn't have writers giving him jokes, he thought them up himself because of his own great sense of humor.

Rick Wilson is a cunt in the best possible way.

[quote] we have all seen Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson all over cable news for the past few years. We know they're both really funny.

Not only do I not know that they're both really funny, I resolutely deny this ridiculous claim because I've been watching them a lot longer than the past few years and what I consider funny is not on par with your comedic standards. Obviously.

[quote] I don't know what the fuck you mean about President Lincoln. He is/was our funniest ever president. He didn't have writers giving him jokes, he thought them up himself because of his own great sense of humor.

What I mean is that mentioning Lincoln and the modern day Republican party is a clear sign of a moron or a dishonest broker like Schmidt or Wilson that have apparently conned you into believing the Southern Strategy never took place.

Al Franken said that the funniest guy in the senate is Lindsay Graham.

Liberals are not funny. Chelsea Handler, Samantha Bee, Amy Shumer all suck. Meanwhile, you have everyone from Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Ricky Gervais all saying that progressive humor sucks. Sure, they may not all be conservatives, but they would all roll their eyes at the responses given in this thread (they are just too mean, how dare they?!) George Carlin was no conservative but he would shit on all these "liberal" comedians.

If most liberals were funny, then current SNL would be nonstop hilarity instead of being the embarrassment it is now.

Concubine Kimberly Guilfoyle's convention speech is a great example of Republican humor.

Republicans being funny is not the same thing as funny Republicans.

R67 you’re not making the distinction between liberalism and political correctness. Of course Carlin was a liberal guy, but he basically despised political correctness (for many reasons). But it’s increasingly hard to find liberals who aren’t politically correct.

The latter almost certainly ruins humor (and is why you almost never see good comedy movies anymore), but a good comedian also inherently questions things and punches holes into conventions and conventional wisdom. Those qualities are antithetical to traditional conservatism (although you can find more libertarian types, sometimes).

Let’s dispense with the accepted notion that political correctness resides only among liberals. We don’t typically call it political correctness, but conservatives practice it in the context of the military, the police & religion. Get back to me when an atheist has a chance at being elected to a major position.

George Carlin was not conservative and you can bet if he were alive today he'd be mercilessly mocking Orange Turd.

I never found Dennis Miller funny. Even back before he turned hard right he had a smug "aren't I too funny?" look when he delivered lines.

If I notice that Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson are really funny, I'm in denial about the Southern Strategy?

And Lincoln can't be referenced as a funny Republican politician because he was funny and Republican too long ago?

I see, well if you have any other words of wisdom, do share them, dear.

I liked Dennis Miller’s joke about the reunification of the two Germanys & how it brought to mind the prospect of a reunion between Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin. He wasn’t a fan of their previous work, he said, & wasn’t interested in seeing what they may do together in the future.

DL icon Alice Roosevelt ("If you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come here and sit by me") was a Republican. Google her and you'll get pages of her wit.

[quote] Al Franken said that the funniest guy in the senate is Lindsay Graham.

Looks aren’t everything.

I actually believe that Lindsay Graham can be funny - it's a defense mechanism because he's gay and deals with Republicans all day.

There are always exceptions to the rule, but for the most part, conservatives don't have the same sense of humor and aren't very funny.

Donald Trump can be pretty fucking funny. He pisses me off so at the time it's hard to enjoy but his phrasing and sarcasm is some of the funniest shit ever to come out of Washington. I low-key like when he rips into people at rallies it can, again at times, be funny.

At the last debate when Biden dropped the mic with the "Republican Congress" line, Trump's sarcastic tone "well, you've gotta talk them into Joe.." is exactly that funny tone I'm talking about. He is a grade-A troll.

I never supported the guy and I am voting for Joe next Saturday.

You have a weird sense of humor R79. Trump has no sense of humor at all. He's incapable of it.

r80 I get that but it's not just me, lots of people find him generally funny. The 2016 Republican Primary, up to the end when we realized what they had done was hilarious. Who didn't want to see republicans get slapped around after 8 years of treating Obama like dirt. You might not have liked his low-brow humor, but I thought it was a hoot. Jokes on me now, but as a Democrat, I enjoyed their messy infighting.

He destroyed the Bush dynasty. He told no lies about W's wars.

[quote] Little Marco, Low Energy Jeb.

If schoolyard nicknames are your idea of cleverness and wit, so be it.

[quote] Get back to me when an atheist has a chance at being elected to a major position.

As long as you’re a celebrity and you can hold up a bible, you’re good.

Republicans always punch down. They're terminally unfunny.

Barack Obama was a great orator but he has a reputation of being cold or distant. Trump can speak in a way that people feel like he's talking directly to them. He is also a master troll.

[quote]I've met Mike Nelson (and Bridget) in person on multiple occasions and he was always warm, friendly, and sarcastically witty.

So was Hitler!

R65, while I absolutely understand where you're coming from and knowing their role in bringing us the southern strategy and Sarah Palin and bringing rise to Trump, I don't hold them in such contempt as I do the media and their role in bringing rise to Trump. The reason I say that is because you cannot deny they are playing a huge role in helping to bring down Trump. We can't win this without peeling off some Republicans.

Just because we are enjoying TLP approach, does not mean we will suddenly jump on board things like corporate tax cuts. We're not dumbass deplorables who believe every fucking thing out of Trump's mouth.

They see Trump as a threat and they are making every effort to help bring him down. That is a huge sacrifice for them because they are burning bridges to do this and putting country over party. That does not mean we will automatically adopt their belief system, but I respect that they recognize how low their own party has sunk and they recognize their part in doing so and are trying to make up for it.

R68 SNL's still pretty funny dude. Please name the conservative counterpart of SNL that we can compare it to. Oh wait, it doesn't exist because there's no demand for conservative "humor."

Republicans can be very funny. Recall that time Limbaugh referred to Obama as "Obameo"? Ya know, because he's biracial? Oreo? Get it?

Hilarious!

[quote] Liberals are not funny. Chelsea Handler, Samantha Bee, Amy Shumer all suck.

Chelsea's hilarious. I've been watching her since Girls Behaving Badly. Samantha Bee has her moments. Amy Shumer I don't really care for her material but she's a lot funnier than any troglodyte comedian you'd consider funny.

Libertarian... edgelords.. .neckbeard... misogynist...alt right...incels... Joe Rogan/Jordan Peterson fans, all part of the same unfortunate family you belong to have this hilarious obsession with negging Amy Schumer so that makes her instantly more funny to me.

[quote] Meanwhile, you have everyone from Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Ricky Gervais all saying that progressive humor sucks.

Someone already pointed out that this is isn't really true and it's definitely not the same as them being in your corner. Not really my pick of comedians, either.

Dancing, flying monkies

DL Brits, isn't your Conservative PM known for his sense of humo(u)r?

[quote]flying monkies

Flying what now?

RWNJs and Conservatives have no self-awareness, so they are unable to successfully engage in true humor. They do rely on bigotry, homophobia, misogyny, and xenophobia as themes for their weak attempts at humor because "othering" is their primary (and behind-the-tiimes) worldview.

You laugh *at* Republicans, not with them. They can't do "humor" but they excel at "self-own" being the butt of jokes. This goes doubly so for the Conservatives, but laughing at Conservatives is also mildly cruel because they're so pathetic.

Republicans are unintentionally funny. Like a president being serious when he praises himself for bringing back "Merry Christmas"

The best comedians don't discriminate in their targets. If you can't laugh at yourself, or are afraid of upsetting people, then you're an activist and not a comedian. Dave Chappelle did a memorable bit about how he wanted to hold back his trans jokes because there was a trans person in the audience, but did the bit anyway and found that she laughed harder than everyone else in the room. My favorite comedy is personal not political.

Didn't Fox News attempt a Daily Show-ish program a while back? I know it didn't run very long.

R97 agree and it’s also true that “real progress” isn’t truly made for a particular group until you can joke about them the way you can everyone else. Although they usually have to go thru that “noble/Sidney Poitier” phase first.

R98, they did. "The 1/2 Hour News Hour". It was as awful as you'd expect.

Mike Nelson of MST3K and Rifftrax is very funny. He’s a conservative republican from Wisconsin.

R101 This is what you consider humor?

[quote]Amy Shumer I don't really care for her material but she's a lot funnier than any troglodyte comedian you'd consider funny.

I don't like a lot of her stuff (including her personality), but I think she's a great comedienne on the strength of "Girl You Don't Need Makeup" alone. That Emmy for her writers was well deserved.

On the topic of blonde liberal comediennes, the genius of Maria Bamford can't be left out.

Maria interviews Jesus

Striking Mike Nelson off my "Would Do" list.

Funny how most [italic]Cheers[/italic] fans overlook the fact that the show has at least three Republicans on it and that two of the creators were Mormons.

I am constantly laughing at Republicans when they say"Trump keeps his promises" or "Trump is the best President ever" or "Trump gets things done" they are hilarious OP.

Dance, gurrrrllll!

Brent Terhune & Blaire Erskine combo spoof of Trump "humor"